05-01-2005, 05:23 AM
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May 1st
1786 ~ Opening night of W.A.M.’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna.
1840 ~ The Penny Black postage stamp is put on sale in the United Kingdom.
1869 ~ The Folies Bergčres opened in Paris.
1904 ~ Death of Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer.
1939 ~ Birthday of Judy Collins, American folk singer.
1941 ~ Orson Welles's Citizen Kane premiered in New York City.
1944 ~ Birthday of Rita Coolidge, American singer.
1960 ~ Cold War: Francis Gary Powers, in a U-2 spyplane, was shot down over the Soviet Union, beginning a crisis.
1978 ~ Death of Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer.
1982 ~ RAF aircraft attack two airstrips near the Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands in the war to rid the islands of Argentine forces
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